I have a little experience in this department. It may sound crazy as I say this, but if you have some cash for this project, you may want to look into actually purchasing a retired A320 rather than gathering $30,000 in parts that take 1 1/2 years to deliver. (Big mistake we made)

For $20,000 you can buy the flight deck of an A320 at Desert Air Spares. (I believe their site is desertairspares.com, maybe?). Shoot by an e-mail to the guys and see if they have an A320 in stock. Doing the math, if you were not to buy a real A320 flight deck and were to buy stuff from Flight Deck Solutions and Project Magenta, you'd have to pay for the chairs, the rudders, the framework and lights, shell, etc which will be just about $25,ooo. Buying an A320 will get you all of that and the carpet, the cockpit window/glass, authentic chairs/yokes/switches/nobs. Plus the nose, weather radar, comms/radios, and everything else in that nose section worth who knows how much for only $20,ooo. Hey, if you were to sell the radios/weather radar and unessentials you'd probably be able to pay off the airplane buy all together anyways.

I'd say look into that and other options before diving forward - there are a lot of ways to get an authentic and badass A320 sim. Trust me, i've helped make one.

I wish I had the $$€€ to buy more stuff from Flight Deck Solutions.
I did buy this sidesitick grip that is used for this Pro-M side stick. Cost me only $60. <discontinued now
The only thing is, it's a DIY.(paint ,drill and wire it )

Maybe airsimmer could team up with a hardware manufacturer and sell a special package with an authentic sidestick AND the software... Most PC joysticks feel too flimsy compared to the real thing.

That would be a good idea as most seem to be GA or Boeing type controls that you can buy. But the downside to this is will enough people buy it to make it worthwhile as I can't see it being cheap

I think there might be - precisely because it is so hard to find Airbus style controls... But it would only be an option; you'd still be able to just buy the software, if you want to fly your bus with a yoke or whatever

[url="http://www.final-approach.co.jp/FS-Final-Approach/fs-cart-FA.html"]http://www.final-approach.co.jp/FS-Final-A...fs-cart-FA.html[/url] (scroll down, and bottom right). I don't have one, but it looks pretty good.

Maybe airsimmer could team up with a hardware manufacturer and sell a special package with an authentic sidestick AND the software... Most PC joysticks feel too flimsy compared to the real thing.[/quote]

Hi....
how can I buy those airbus sidesticks and the airbus throttle....i don

Hey, I have that exact one! (Took 1 1/2 years to arrive, same with the FMS)

WHERE DID YOU GET IT FROM?!

Flight Deck Solutions. The FMC came using old Playstation parts for it (The interior), and the throttles unfortunately didn't have a functioning trim wheel (Which we were able to make work). I wouldn't use'em again, took 1 1/2 years for them to send it..